Author

Sawyer Griffith
Undergraduate in Civil Engineering
Famous Engineering Failures And What We Learned
Class: ENGL 1302: Composition II with Dr. Hüsing (Spring 2026)
Abstract
My goal with this project was to shine some light on big engineering disasters to entice my peers to look into engineering because I wanted to show them that engineering isn’t just designing things in an office it can have very real world impacts. I also wanted to show how good things or changes can still come from these terrible events.